Project Timeline

Cloud Connected Attendance RFID Reader

The key technological aspects for demonstrating my idea are:

- Working RFID reader

- Functional website with backend database

My rough timeline looks like the following:

11/2 - Working RFID reader with upload to the cloud

11/9 - Fully functional backend database with REST API

11/23 - Polished and fully functional website

11/30 - Portable unit (battery powered) with enclosure

Project Idea Refinement

I'm looking to solve the problem of recording class attendance. The current solutions are slow, cumbersome, and inefficient. My idea is to take advantage of the RFID chip in Mcards by having an internet connected device by the door that you just tap your Mcard to when you enter. The device then uploads to the cloud and presents the professor with a nice web interface of who was in class, along with a historical record of all classes.

Project Idea Research

Problems:

• Taking attendance in class
• Real-time communication between teacher and students during a lecture
• Students should leverage the help of each other more
• Sailboats knowing the exact time to the start of the race
• Remote monitoring of vital health statistics
• Remote distribution of medicine to a person in an emergency
• There is not a standard for how data is captured and the accuracy of the information
• IOT devices are inherently hackable and add to hospital network risks. Is there a way to prevent this?
• It’s difficult and time consuming to track how many calories and other nutrients you eat. There could be a way to do this automatically.
• There could be a way to connect weight lifting to the internet to automatically track your lifting progress.

Solutions:

• Internet connected device with iBeacon that pings smartphones and uploads to cloud who is in the room.
• Device to have a queue of questions sourced from students that the professor can answer during lecture.
• Have the starting horn for sailboat races connected to the internet and able to broadcast the exact time to all of the boats racing.
• Pacemakers connected to the internet that allow doctors to monitor your pace, etc. Could extend to other measuring devices: glucose monitor, blood pressure, etc.
• Internet connected epi pen / medicine distributor. Device that is always on you and someone you trust (doctor, parent) can choose to administer medicine remotely.

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